Second man arrested in plot to bomb U.S. Federal Reserve

Pedestrians pass the Federal Reserve Building on Wednesday in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, the Bangladeshi man, who was arrested Wednesday on charges that he plotted to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had an accomplice in San Diego, who was arrested later on unrelated child-pornography charges, a law enforcement official told The New York Times.

The man described as the accomplice, Howard Willie Carter II, was arrested after an agent with the FBI found 1,000 images and three video files containing child pornography on a laptop and hard drive in the trash near Mr. Carter’s apartment, according to a government document obtained by the Times. Officials used material stored on the computer to trace it back to Carter.